Daily Dothttp://www.dailydot.com/Daily Dot Articleen-usWed, 28 Nov 2012 19:54:16 +0000Weird Wednesday: @glitchr_ turns tweets into visual arthttp://www.dailydot.com/culture/weird-wednesday-glitchr-tweet-art/<p><img src='http://cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/84/20/8420256efec6ce337fe8a3a107acbae1.jpg'></p><p>
Do not adjust your screen.</p>
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The tweets you are about to see are supposed to look a little disconcerting.</p>
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<a href="http://twitter.com/glitchr_">@glitchr_</a> makes clever use of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode">Unicode</a>, a computing standard for handling text, to turn tweets into small works of art.</p>
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Glitchr, who has more than 3,700 Twitter followers and almost 24,000 <a href="https://www.facebook.com/glitchr">Facebook fans</a>, pushes the envelope of what can fit into a 140-character message. The artist often breaks the physical confines of tweets, running images across several tweets, and including black pixels that disappear when you mouse over some tweets. Scrolling down <a href="http://twitter.com/glitchr">Glitchr&rsquo;s profile</a> lets you see some fascinating multi-tweet art.</p>
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Glitch art has had <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/culture/gustavo-fajardo-glitch-gif-interview/">its place</a> in GIFs and <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/entertainment/philip-stearns-year-of-the-glitch-interview/">Tumblr</a> for some time, and bringing that to a different medium such as Twitter can only raise awareness of the form.</p>
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As much as Twitter is essential for up-to-the-minute news and is a hub for rapid-fire quips, it is people like Glitchr who afford us solace from the community&rsquo;s chaos, no matter how briefly.</p>
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<em>Photo via <a href="http://twitter.com/glitchr_">@Glitchr_</a>/Twitter</em></p>
kris@dailydot.com (Kris Holt)Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:54:16 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/culture/weird-wednesday-glitchr-tweet-art/CultureTwitterUpstream